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sobriqueHmm, about time for my monthly SINergy whinge.
Here goes.
When I first started 'getting in' to SINergy, it was because I saw Darren and Graham losing the enthusiasm. Oh, I'm not talking so much about in session, but more in the general sense of keeping track of return sheets, following up long term plot, developing characters, that kind of thing.
And several people at the time, mentioned they'd not touch the reffing thing. I'm beginning to see why. Now one way or another Darren and Graham have been largely out of the loop for a while. Mostly due to real life issues, that were unavoidable (or perhaps, they were, but they are better off not avoided). That, as far as I'm concerned, is fair enough. Reffing SINergy really does take a lot of work.
The problem though, really isn't the amount of work. However much I grumble, I do enjoy running SINergy. It's a great feeling when things 'work' and you have 30 people all having a damn good time.
No, my problem is that when you're reffing, you can never get stuff right. Of those 30 people, they've all got opinions. A fair fraction of them have _conflicting_ opinions. Since you can never please everyone, you're left with trying to please the most. Or you have the choice of pissing everyone off, but with the aim of making it 'better' long term.
Time and again, you hear the same complaints, that things are 'unfair', or that 'my character is unplayable' or that 'you let me do it last time', or that 'you let so and so get away with it'.
And then, I stop for a moment. And I think "well, fuck'em. I volunteered to try and do this. So I'm going to. If I do a sufficiently bad job that everyone hates me enough to give it a go themselves, then so much the better. If I don't then they're just being backseat drivers, happy to criticise others, but lacking the will to 'do it better'".
Today, I've managed to brighten someone's day.
Tonight, I'm off for a birthday meal in pleasant company.
Tomorrow, I'll be in the Beer Engine with a group of people I consider friends.
These things are important.
SINergy is something I put time and effort in to. The fact that it's still in existance is a tribute to the hard work of the people who've been keeping it going. Regardless of various opinions, they can't take that away from me. All the fussing and moaning, at the end of the day, isn't all that important.
Here goes.
When I first started 'getting in' to SINergy, it was because I saw Darren and Graham losing the enthusiasm. Oh, I'm not talking so much about in session, but more in the general sense of keeping track of return sheets, following up long term plot, developing characters, that kind of thing.
And several people at the time, mentioned they'd not touch the reffing thing. I'm beginning to see why. Now one way or another Darren and Graham have been largely out of the loop for a while. Mostly due to real life issues, that were unavoidable (or perhaps, they were, but they are better off not avoided). That, as far as I'm concerned, is fair enough. Reffing SINergy really does take a lot of work.
The problem though, really isn't the amount of work. However much I grumble, I do enjoy running SINergy. It's a great feeling when things 'work' and you have 30 people all having a damn good time.
No, my problem is that when you're reffing, you can never get stuff right. Of those 30 people, they've all got opinions. A fair fraction of them have _conflicting_ opinions. Since you can never please everyone, you're left with trying to please the most. Or you have the choice of pissing everyone off, but with the aim of making it 'better' long term.
Time and again, you hear the same complaints, that things are 'unfair', or that 'my character is unplayable' or that 'you let me do it last time', or that 'you let so and so get away with it'.
And then, I stop for a moment. And I think "well, fuck'em. I volunteered to try and do this. So I'm going to. If I do a sufficiently bad job that everyone hates me enough to give it a go themselves, then so much the better. If I don't then they're just being backseat drivers, happy to criticise others, but lacking the will to 'do it better'".
Today, I've managed to brighten someone's day.
Tonight, I'm off for a birthday meal in pleasant company.
Tomorrow, I'll be in the Beer Engine with a group of people I consider friends.
These things are important.
SINergy is something I put time and effort in to. The fact that it's still in existance is a tribute to the hard work of the people who've been keeping it going. Regardless of various opinions, they can't take that away from me. All the fussing and moaning, at the end of the day, isn't all that important.
